{"id":179007,"date":"2018-06-19T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/19\/stupid-but-consider-the-alternative\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T01:13:00","slug":"stupid-but-consider-the-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/19\/stupid-but-consider-the-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid, but Consider the Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/trump-wants-his-space-force-to-be-separate-but-equal-notice-anything-odd\/2018\/06\/19\/439ee476-7400-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html\">wants a US Space Force be established as a, &#8220;Separate but Equal,&#8221; 6th branch of the military<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My first though was, &#8220;Racism much?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My second thought was, &#8220;This is really stupid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My third thought was, &#8220;Yes, but it&#8217;s still probably going to do more, for less money, than the United States Air Force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;d like to fold the USAF back under the army and go to 4 (really 3\u00bd) services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump wants a US Space Force be established as a, &#8220;Separate but Equal,&#8221; 6th branch of the military. My first though was, &#8220;Racism much?&#8221; My second thought was, &#8220;This is really stupid.&#8221; My third thought was, &#8220;Yes, but it&#8217;s still probably going to do more, for less money, than the United States Air Force.&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,379],"class_list":["post-179007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}